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2012: New Lids, Winter Ball, and the Return.

AVONWORTH, PA – After the first unofficial Bulldogs workout of 2012, I am exciting to bring you the first “official” Bulldogs post of 2012. There has been a great deal of excitement around team headquarters with the first change to our game-day uniforms in three years.  For 2012, our home and away uniforms will be [...]

NABA League News – Draft

From the office of the commish: With the draft a week away, it is still not too late to get signed up for the 2010 Pittsburgh NABA, but you’ve got to hurry!  We’ve got new teams, openings on old teams, and possibly even new leagues forming this year, and we would like for you to [...]

League to Play at 6pm on Weeknights!

In a departure from years past, the league will not be handling the distribution of time slots this year to teams. Teams are responsible for securing their own time slots (details from Iser), and the league will now accept 6pm Weeknight Games on the schedule. This was voted on at the end of year meeting [...]

Meeting Notes & Field for Fall

Fall Baseball – I applied for a permit to use Avonworth’s High School Baseball field in July, and still haven’t heard back one way or another yet.  I’m a little worried at this point that for some unknown reason, I won’t be able to sue that field for fall…. In which case, we need to [...]

Umpire Meeting Tonight

I will be meeting with the Executive Committee of the Big League Umpires Association to discuss issues pertaining to the 2010 season.  All items are open for discussion, and any topics that people feel should be addressed, can be sent to me, and I will be sure to bring them up. As a bit of [...]

Fall Ball Begins

I was exceptionally pleased with everything regarding the first week of the fall ball season.  All managers appear to have been very organized, and there were very few instances of no-shows by players.  Out of 73 players in the league, only 6 have not paid their balance in full (and five of them are on [...]

The President’s Blog

This section of website is dedicated to commentary from the Pittsburgh NABA President, Joe Graff and discussion regarding the issues posted within.  Joe is a co-founder of the Bulldogs, and had served as their general manager prior to assuming the role league presidency in fall 2006.   Often referred to as the “Commish”, Mr. Graff [...]

This Week in Bulldogs Baseball 6/22/2009

The Bulldogs have a potentially long layoff having had no games this past weekend, and the fate of the upcoming Matadors doubleheader still in the air.  It is possible that the 6/15 Eagles game will be our last before the 7/5 Game against the Warriors… Let us hope not. I propose we get as much [...]

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